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Thursday, 1 August 2013

In November 2012 I interviewed
John Sheridan, leader of the little-known, right-wing street movement the
English Volunteer Force (EVF)[1]. Formed in July of last year, the EVF claims to
stand ‘against militant Islam, Republican terror, and the extreme-Left’, while its opponents have branded members ‘opportunistic, racist thugs’. When I spoke to John Sheridan, his group was
still in embryonic form – it was yet to hold a demonstration and was still very much in the shadow of the
English Defence League (EDL). Since then the EVF has tried to establish itself as an independent organisation and has been more active, culminating
in its recent demonstration outside Lunar House in Croydon. Last month I met up with new leader Jason Lock to find out how
the EVF has evolved over the past year, and question him on some of his
controversial viewpoints.